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From: G. Wayne Hines
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:36

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In an earlier episode, "Pat H." <pat@synsecurity.com> wrote:

> It might just be that.
> The supervisor I spoke to said it was because of people hogging all the
> bandwidth, and this way everyone will get equal bandwidth.

I'm going to have to tow that one alongside for a while before I
drag it aboard. :-)

> I was told that I lived at the 'end of the line' and I still received great
> speeds, but I wonder if they have some sort of 'repeaters' in place or
> something? Then again, I'm not really sure how DSL works exactly so ignore
> this probable dumb comment

Some time ago, they were experimenting with signal amplifiers or
something in an effort to increase the distance from the CO for 
the service. I don't know what ever happened to that.

gwh

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